Science & Society

A ten-nation analysis of media systems and national political knowledge funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) in the United Kingdom found that women living in the world’s most…

One of the sillier arguments regarding gender inequality (and most of them regarding the developed world are pretty silly in 2013) is that Wikipedia, with anonymous editors of suspect credibility, is…

There's a new weapon to fight poachers who kill elephants, hippos, rhinos and other wildlife - nuclear bombs.  By measuring radioactive carbon-14 deposited in tusks and teeth by open-air…

Phone Hacking Scandal - Appeal Dismissed Rebekah Brooks, News International’s former chief executive,  Andy Coulson, former No. 10 spin doctor (Downing Street communications chief), and others…

When it comes to disparities in gender among various, there are no limits to the hypotheses laid out to explain differences, usually in sync with the cultural agenda of the proponent. Engineering,…

This is an article I wrote for wikipedia to cover the diversity of published views on Mars Sample Return. Sadly it was deleted from wikipedia. So I present it here as background material for: …

The Science of Law   Scattered throughout the pages of the history of the common law are many references to it being a science.  Science may be called the pursuit of fact by means of well-…

What happens if you are a Yogi living in Seattle (or Portland, or San Francisco - wherever progressive pseudoscience crackpots feel welcome and included) who discovers that 'proof' is more…

Terrorism-induced smoking is a new explanatory factor that will keep public health academics from accepting that free choice happens - some people will do things that are bad for them.  A Weill…

The world really stinks today. We have run out of aluminum, copper, gold, lead, mercury, natural gas, oil, silver, tin, tungsten, and zinc. Oh wait, no we haven't. But if you are an anti-science…